Example sentences of "happen [prep] [pron] in the [adj] " in BNC.

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1 When I go past , I wonder what has been happening to her in the intervening years , and that 's very odd . ’
2 He remained silent , watching her , and her embarrassment grew until in the end she set her glass down with a bang and in desperation said , ‘ So are you going to tell me what 's been happening to you in the last five years ? ’
3 So what happens to me in the great cultural revolution ?
4 ‘ We are at the bedside of the girl and are now starting to piece together what happened to her in the six hours she was in the hands of this maniac .
5 No one mentioned it was essential training as a motoring correspondent to have a car crash , but it happened to me in the same gruesome circumstances that confront hundreds of motorists every week .
6 I have no memory of anything that happened to me in the last ten years . ’
7 The magazine Der Spiegel recently published the results of an opinion poll revealing that 14 per cent of Germans still think Jews were partly to blame for what happened to them in the second world war , 36 per cent believe Jews ‘ have too much influence ’ , and more than 50 per cent believe it is time for Germany to forget the past and move on .
8 It was as though all that had happened to her in the past year was suddenly before her , and all her own shortcomings into the bargain had landed on her in a heap , and were destroying her .
9 Once again she wished she understood what had happened to her in the last three months .
10 It says that at least some of the characteristics of this hyper-individualist people can not be explained by what has happened to them in the Ottoman time and since , because these characteristics predate the Ottomans .
11 How lovely it would be to find the garden , and see what had happened to it in the last ten years !
12 Now given the nature of the coastal economy and what has happened to us in the last ten years or so , we have calculated our conversions through to two thousand and six on a reducing level .
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